Higham (Bury St Edmunds), Suffolk
Historical Description
Higham, a civil parish in Suffolk, formed in 1894. It has a station on the Bury and Newmarket branch of the G.E.R., 7 miles W from Bury St Edmunds, and a post office under Bury St Edmunds; money order and telegraph office, Barrow. Area, 2694 acres; population, 385. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ely; net yearly value,, £100 with residence. The church, erected in 1861, is a building of flint in the Early English style.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Suffolk is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Higham (Bury St Edmunds) are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Suffolk papers online: